Marc Honegger
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Marc Honneger directing the Mise au tombeau by Georges Migot in the Strasbourg cathedral (1969).
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| Born | 17 May 1926 Paris |
| Died | 27 August 2003 (aged 77) Saint-Martin-de-Vers (Lot) |
| Occupation | Musicologist Choirmaster |
Marc Honegger (17 May 1926 – 8 September 2003) was a French musicologist and choirmaster.
Honegger studied at the Sorbonne, where he was a pupil of Paul-Marie Masson. He received a very complete musical training: He studied piano with Santiago Riera (1942-1949), musical composition with Georges Migot from 1946 and conducting with Ion Constantinesco (1947-1948).
An assistant of Jacques Chailley at the Institut de Musicologie of Paris Sorbonne (1954-1958), then teaching assistant at the Strasbourg University (from 1958), he became full professor in 1970. He also taught abroad in Canada. He directed the Institute of Musicology of the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg from 1958 to 1983. He was also president of the Société française de musicologie 1977–1980) and vice-president of the International Musicological Society 1982–1992).
Honegger's research focused mainly on music from the 16th century. He supported two doctoral thesis, one on the origins of Reformed Protestant music in France, Les Chansons spirituelles de Didier Lupi et les débuts de la musique protestante en France au XVIe and the other on the alterations (flats or sharps) not noted in the Renaissance music, Les Messes de Josquin des Prés dans la tablature de Diego Pisador (Salamanque 1552): contribution à l'étude des altérations au XVIe.
He contributed to the publication of works by composers of the 16th century such as , Claudin de Sermisy, Pierre Certon, Didier Lupi Second, and Claude Goudimel. The dictionaries he has coordinated are today still reference works.
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